Help! I'm Uninspired!

Hey everyone, it's your favourite chemical saying hi to the black folks and the black folks only! 

In all seriousness, I hope you all had a great February and a great Black History Month. One thing for certain, it definitely went by a whole faster than January!

I'm here today with this month's blog and good (or bad) news, it’ll be shorter than usual. I gotta admit, I wrote it at 12:30am while sleep deprived.

I was also incredibly uninspired, which ironically, inspired this month's blog post!

I'm a creative person. I have an eye for aesthetically pleasing things, I can come up with scenarios and I even write novels and stories. If you didn't know, now you do. But I suffer from a truly annoying obstacle. When I'm trying to write a story, it's writer's block. In any other situation, I'm just not feeling creative. At all.

For the longest time, it used to piss me off. Truly. I would have ideas for stories but the moment it was time to put them on paper, my mind would blank off. Or I simply wouldn't finish them. I would stress, I would get mad. I used to feel like a fraud. Others never seem to have this problem. Why can’t I do the same?

As I got older and busier, juggling making music, but also other hobbies like creative writing, graduate school and work, I started becoming nicer with myself. It's okay to be uninspired because I'm busy or tired. When you’re already juggling so many things full-time, when you get home so exhausted you barely want to shower, creativity often gets put on the backburner.

And that's okay.

And what's even more okay, is to have nothing to do at all, and still feel uncreative or uninspired; to stare at a sheet and have nothing go through your mind. Or to have the idea, but no way of putting it into this physical realm.

Sometimes, the same way we plug our phones at night to charge them, we need to let our brains turn off to regenerate. We don't have to be working all the time, and we don't have to have an active mind all the time. Society makes us feel like producing nothing is wrong, that we’re not good enough because we’re not at work, or in school, or simply active. It’s okay to take a step back, to say: “Tonight, I’m going to start this new series I’ve heard about,” or “I don’t feel like writing a song. Let’s play a video game!”

Once you accept your creative ups and downs, once you accept to rest, so much stress and anxiety goes away. Simply put, allow yourself to be human.

So to end this here because I'm tired, I'm uninspired this month, and it made me write this at the last moment.

Don’t forget to pay your bills and see you guys in April!